Coffee may reduce success of fertility treatments: Study

If you drink more than five cups of coffee a day, you reduce your chances of achieving pregnancy during IVF treatment by 50%.”
Researcher Ulrik Kesmodel

A new study suggests that drinking five or more cups of coffee a day could reduce chances of success for women undergoing the fertility treatments.
Danish researchers studied some 4,000 women who were undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, considering the results of the studies as “comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking.”
Ahead of the treatment and before each treatment cycle, the women reported the amount of coffee they drank each day. The researchers also considered age, smoking, weight, alcohol habits and other factors that may reduce the chances of success of the treatments.
"If you drink more than five cups of coffee a day, you reduce your chances of achieving pregnancy during IVF treatment by 50%,” said researcher Ulrik Kesmodel, a consultant gynecologist at the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark.
"They have only half the chance of achieving pregnancy compared to women who do not drink coffee at all," he added.
Another study, carried out by the US researchers, also found that eating high amounts of saturated fats and polyunsaturated fats could affect the success of IVF.
However, eating higher amounts of monounsaturated fats would boost the chances of having a live birth, said researcher Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, an assistant professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.
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